Tucker Carlson shows his true partisan colors:

10/12/2005 - "The Situation with Tucker Carlson"
MADDOW: the Republicans, with all other nominees, have said Democrats are being obstructionist for wanting to see documents, for wanting to see a paper trail, for wanting to get questions answered in the judiciary committee hearings, and now all of a sudden, the Republicans want those things for this nominee.
CARLSON: Well, 99 percent of the time that‘s a fair charge. Democrats have been obstructionist. In this case, that‘s a ridiculous charge. It‘s actually conservatives who are being obstructionist, and good for them.

So according to Tucker it's a good thing to obstruct a nominee when you have questions about their qualifications and positions on issues, IF you happen to share Tucker's opinion of that nominee. At least the guy comes right out and says it. He has a very basic and unabashed double standard. Simply put, Democrats are almost always in the wrong (99% of the time) and Republicans, when doing the same thing Democrats do, are in the right. This is the very definition of a partisan hack. Your side is always right, the other side is always wrong. Your side can criticize the president and has legitimate concerns, the other side is being obstructionist and perhaps un-American or unpatriotic. It's this kind of divisive attitude and diametric partisan framing of the issues that hurts the political process and hurts the discussion. The Republican senators that are concerned about this Supreme Court nominee have a duty to have their concerns addressed and their questions answered. Republicans have an obligation to their constituents, and the constitution, to determine if a nominee is appropriate for the position they are being nominated. Now repeat the previous two sentences and replace the occurrence of "Republican" with "Democrat". If your agreement or disagreement with those two sentences changes with the changing of the words "Republican" or "Democrat" then you are a partisan lackey.